US Population Density Map

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[–]EndlessSunflowers[S] 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (13 children)

I like s/whatever because I never know where to post : )
Thank You Saidit for tolerating me & letting me post here

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

No prob, I like it for the same reason. :) We do have /s/maps though, just for future reference. :)

Regarding the map, I find it interesting how truly stark that vertical line in the midwest is. If you go west Kanas, west OK, etc, there is no one there! It's almost like there's some line of longitude everyone just stopped at, ha

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (11 children)

I hadn't noticed that midwest line and now it's glaring. Remarkable. No one there but the military and/or BLM in much of it.

[–]whistlepig 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

I was just wondering about whether or not that is where the US still owns all the BLM land.

[–]beermeem 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

Shush. No one knows about BLM.

Don’t wonder. The BLM owns everything.

I’m not kidding. Aside from a few murders, they are super nice people. I’ve spoken with them personally many times.

Here in Cali there is tons of BLM land. They are super hands off especially compared to National Park Rangers who have a desire to be police.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

They sure like to get in on the Burning Man action - as do all po po out there. Black Rock Desert borders on 3 counties, plus the State cops, BLM, DEA, and other feds. The desert is a harsh and dangerous environment.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

yawn

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (6 children)

It’s almost like there’s an invisible mountain standing in their way. Oh wait, it’s not invisible.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

Except that the stark "line" is far ahead of the mountains, from Minneapolis to Laredo - leaving the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, half of Oklahoma and half of Texas nearly empty. In the midst of that stark area you see Denver and Colorado Springs, where the mountains start and a little further Salt Lake City. Having driven through there many times, I can assure you it's all very inhabitable.

Topographical

Even the American Expansion doesn't explain it. I'd say they just followed the Mississippi River and some tributaries a bit and just gave up mass settlements, in a line by luck of the continental drift and ice age melt-off.

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

We can debate this. You have a very fair point.

We have both operated motor coaches across this fine land that is America.

I will look again and re-examine my assertion.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

Nomadic pipe dream: Me, a good woman, a portable life, secure storage, stable funding, some gear and a satellite connection, a reliable RV, all the time in the world, and the open road...

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

You’ll need solar.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

"gear"

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

yes

[–]hennaojichan 3 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 4 fun -  (1 child)

I'm imagining the vertical demension to be stacks of human waste. Thank YOU for posting.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

You’re human waste. Let’s have a poop off South Park style.

[–]Tigerbitecrazy 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (3 children)

Are there other renderings of this map? I'd love to see it from a different angle than the one shown

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (2 children)

This guy maps. Let’s get a view from Canada for Jason.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Though there might be a couple surprises, I'm afraid the Canadian version would likely be pretty boring. We'd have to amplify x10 at least as the US has 300+ million and Canada only 30+ million - plus we're a much larger region. Yet were even more clustered. It's well known that 90% of us live within 100 miles of the US border.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=percentage+of+Canadians+within+100+miles+USA

Several different angles would be nice but actually all you'd really need is one orthographic version to remove the perspective and maybe a second orthographic angle view anything hiding behind the condensed "towers" like New Jersey and New York or Boston.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I’m from Jersey. I just wanna see it from the North. This isn’t a Kevin Smith movie.

Or from Mexico. Any reasonable angle.

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

What I noticed was how many people ended up

IN THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING FLORIDA

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Me too! I didn't expect that.

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

First thing I looked for, sadly.

I did go to Tallahassee once. Never further. Not a proud moment in my life. Realized I was too close to Alabama.

But way too many family stories about that state.

[–]beermeem 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

The line that Jason is talking about goes from Minneapolis/St Paul directly down to Dallas/Fort Worth.

So as an East Coast/West Coaster, the question that enters my mind is why can’t these people in the middle of the country just aggregate power?

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

Further than Dallas to Austin, San Antonio, and Laredo.

Capitalism is FAAAAAR from efficient, but it's also not completely stupid. The further inland you go the further you need to ship resources. Water is the best way, as well as necessary for life and industry, thus you'll find cities only on significant bodies of water. Industry inland is generally for natural resource extraction and farming. That's the difference between the heartland and the hinterland.

West Texas alone has enough perpetual wind power to supply 2/3 of the continental USA, but "they" don't want that.

But by aggregating power I assume you mean inverting the supply and demand thing. Ain't gonna happen without a catastrophic event, like meteors taking out the North East Coast - as well as hitting all the other coasts. Climate change ain't gonna do it.

Further, the establishment system is... established. If by some miracle the interior woke up and decided they wanted to reorganize and consolidate power, even by clever decentralized tactics, there would be another civil war of sorts, though most likely through infiltration, corruption, and subversion. Like how the Dems are all CIA now.

[–]beermeem 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Alright. Bring some of that water.

[–]JasonCarswellMental Orgy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Very cool! I can't believe I haven't seen anything like that before.

Maybe repost in /s/maps and/or /s/Infographics and/or /s/graphs and/or /s/computergraphics?